today's news and the week's top stories on our g the palestinians get the backing of the world at a historic at the u.n. vote as israel announces plans to build new settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem. egypt is heading deeper into chaos after the country's top court halted all work in protest over being blocked from ruling on the new constitution this comes amid public outrage triggered by president morsi self-imposed power. wiki leaks will release a raft of new and shocking revelations in the next year according to join a sun speaking to r t the whistleblower says that the new material is said to rival even the publication of the u.s. diplomatic cables.

and live from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us the palestinians moved a step closer to being fully recognized as independent the u.n. voted to upgrade the administration's diplomatic status to a nonmember observer state our middle east correspondent possibly or reports now on how the move may signal a change in the way the world sees israeli actions. it might should be no foregone conclusion but that didn't dampen the jubilation on the streets of palestine. overwhelming support for upgraded palestinian state has to a nonmember observer state in the un one hundred thirty eight voting in favor nine against forty one abstentions it's important political and legal victory to hold israel accountable in

a practical way on its violations the national law and its violations of the rights of the palestinian people especially on the expansion of illegal certain. yes palestinians can now apply to join the international criminal court and other global organizations giving them better bargaining chips in dealing with israel but it came at a price within hours tel aviv announced it was building three thousand more homes in the west bank a sure sign that the situation on the ground won't change overnight or the buzz does it's not a step forward it's a step aside or even you know a step. berkut it's really a pity the international community gives hand to this violation the us was also quick to cast a cloud over the palestinian party mood the unfortunate and counterproductive resolution at the united nations general assembly that just passed today's grand pronouncements will soon fade and the palestinian people will wake up tomorrow and

find that little about their lives has changed but washington's unflinching support for tel aviv has separated from some of its longtime allies in the un more and more countries are turning their back on decades of negotiations that have led nowhere what has changed has been the continual failure of the us controlled so-called peace process to lead to any kind of end to occupation and what i think was the catalyst here is that political pressure on other matters in on the palestinian authority from their own population from their own people who were saying you know what we've had twenty one years of failed diplomacy we're not looking for twenty two we want something different and that's something means a real shift in policy first and foremost the consensus on the international stage is that israel needs to stop building settlements deemed illegal by the un certain

to be international community you know is a horse this way to start a provocation which heroes of course are going to run. so god. it was a little more than a year ago that palestinian president mahmoud abbas came to the un in a bid for statehood since then tel aviv and washington's approach to the middle east conflict has gained them an ever shrinking minority of supporters the irony is that the bid was passed in the watcher's of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his right wing foreign minister avigdor lieberman it was last year that lieberman boasted in the united nations that the moral majority of western states was with israel now turns out he was wrong and whether israel wants it or not it's increasingly clear that something needs to give pause here r.t. tel aviv earlier israeli academic a myriad told my colleague karen all in the general assembly's decision puts the whole peace process under threat. the majority of israelis including the sculptor

move by the way have stated clearly that they'd like to see palestine independent both of us understand that there is a difference between saying palestine independent and doing it on your own with the united nations without israel as a partner as if saying that the impediment is just the state that's here let's do this hand in hand without negotiations without us as a partner to do a one sided to impose it on israel and they feel the strong need to give a response as an israeli i can say that has to do with domestic politics personally i don't necessarily adhere to that stop i think you've heard a lot of criticism here in israel in linking it in such a way but that is also about politics but of course israel maybe not helping them out or it could be said on top of the and i was for the settlements also announced is not going to hold over a hundred million dollars of aid to the palestinians to pay back debts to israeli companies is really an option when of course you go to will's blah just refugee

populations on your doorstep well that refugee population is something that needs to be taken care of in any case but i'm looking at these as part of the last four years the decision that was made on thursday from my point of view as an israeli was anti israel not just pro palestinian i want to see something which is a win win situation one that's both pro palestinian that goes towards an independent state not just in rhetoric and then not just in declarations but in actuality and to do so those same palestinians kevin how to come back to the negotiation table for the last four years they have refused to do so they've refused time and again and we're all aware of that it was one of the main reasons that the forty states who did abstain from the vote on thursday did so because of that rejection of israel it isn't just about being pro palestine it's also about accepting israel here and that's where we need to go. divisions between the president of the judiciary have dealt

a stop. and blow to stability in egypt the country's top judges called a strike in protest over the rushed approval of the new constitution as well as morsi sweeping new powers a referendum will be held in under two weeks as protesters numbering in the tens of thousands remain on the streets from cairo artie's tom barton has more. good unrest returns to the streets after the revolution that toppled hosni mubarak after the election that brought in mohamed morsi egypt is in turmoil once again these round the clock protests have been going on for a week now it resembles early two thousand and eleven when hosni mubarak was removed from power but that was nearly two years ago shouldn't the revolution have been mended by now the mood on top risk where became defiant again after last week's to creba president morsi meaning his decisions would face no legal challenge we had the revolution to get rid of a tyrant a dictator and. we in in order to do that we made elections and the

revolution and with elections to choose someone to the present us then turned out that this guy is also a tyrant himself however morsi claims his new powers are only temporary he nor any of the bbq in the world who closely near the will tell you it is that imposing it is full immersion see it told us the serious the same thing sixty years of war and the president will block and we stayed under emergency rule for seventy years opponents say egypt's new constitution is too islamist and could set the country on the road to religious dictatorship for some sections of society a king to show their support for morsi and their scorn for judges who would block the constitution and i'm here to support the first democracy that was open by defeat for them is open for them to the constitutional court yeah most of us knows that since it is the morsi is that he got elected by the people when it was at the

fight for the. the rifts in society are undeniable and perhaps more even the north or a tarion ism the fear is that chaos will tear apart any gains made by the revolution this is something new in egypt that's why it's it's more of a city thing in a way where you find that people are facing each other in the seats in the ministrations and facing that type of violence from islamic groups egypt's president its government its courts its very constitution are now matters of heated debate one of the few things most egyptians do seem to agree on after the long night of mubarak a new day is proving elusive tom barton r.t. . joining us are promises shock and awe as a raft of new wiki leaks is set to be released next year speaking to our t.v. editor of the whistle blowing web site claims social media is turning the us into a totalitarian state you can see the full interview on our website at our two dot

com but here's a taste of what's there for you right now. the problem is that all the time everyone nearly everything they do on the internet is permanently recorded every web search to know what you were thinking one year two days three months ago and you don't know google knows it remembers the national security agency intercepts the requests that the us border it knows. we need. a national security agency whistleblower who was research head of the national security agency's signals intelligence division describes this as turning a key totalitarianism that all the infrastructure has been built for absolute totalitarianism it's just a matter of turning the key and actually the case has already been turned a little bit and it is now affecting people who are targeted for us drone strikes organizations like wiki leaks. national security reporters who are having the

sources investigated is already partly turned and the question is would we would go all the way. to the u.s. army private accused of passing classified material to wiki leaks has spoken for the first time since his arrest at a pretrial hearing bradley manning says constantine's id attacks made him consider suicide during his two years in detention he went through the longest pretrial detention of a u.s. soldier since the vietnam war as he was held for more than nine hundred days chase made our lawyer and author of a book on manning says even members of the military are supporting the prison and private. oh the kid in the military and intelligence and law enforcement is quite divided about this i'm not going to lie most people in the military have a very strict by the book attitude towards many of the rules not all the rules but many and would like to see many convicted but i have talked with infantry one of

whom who is caught on camera at that infamous collateral murder how a cup your video who sees bradley manning is hero who sees the leaks of the iraq war logs including that helicopter video as an unqualified good because now americans can finally see how that war is actually going in ditto for the afghan war logs. there are also people in the f.b.i. who think such a thing is weak in weeks is very good for national security including the former director of the minneapolis office of the f.b.i. foley roundly who is the time magazine person of the year two thousand and two and i have a long interview in my book with the former top cia analyst ray mcgovern who also sees this public knowledge of this benefit to the public debate about our wars should be end in measurable good so there is disagreement that the military and intelligence communities about this. election turnout has tumbled and in kuwait it

seems that the proposition boycott has paid off in a few minutes we'll tell you why changing the rules has enraged to the voters plus . women frustration grows as taxpayers seem more money heading to debt ridden greece and all that still to come this hour on our team. at least fifteen people have been killed and more than thirty injured in the syrian city of homes my witnesses say there were two separate car bomb attacks near a mosque and a stadium many of the injured are still in a critical condition and the death toll is likely to rise this comes amid reports of syrian warplanes have hit rebel targets in the suburbs of damascus fighting between militias. and wishing troops has been raging in the area for around a month this week also some gruesome video emerged apparently showing the execution of ten on armed prisoners by syrian rebels one of the gunmen is heard referencing an al qaeda linked group a behind several terrorist attacks in the country in the meantime syria has

experienced two motion wide communications blackout the opposition accuse the assad government of staging an information blockade but news analyst patrick kennedy says that primarily benefited those backing the rebel militias become a massive problem again with syria and we've had this problem from the beginning which is the skewing of information coming out of the country the syrian observatory for human rights who is responsible for a lot of the visual bogus claims are allowed the west to sort of justify the fact of the free syrian army terrorist groups the leaders of our western countries particularly nato countries or encouraging the syrian terrorist rebels guerrillas whatever you want to call them to really accelerate the bloodbath in that country because in the eyes of washington and london the bigger the plugs out the quicker they're going to have reaching just a report just came out this week with a supplying satellite units to rebels rebel groups terrorist groups essentially in

syria so they can communicate while the internet is down to their country there was a niche initially sold in the media in places like the washington post as a move by the assad government possibly to shut down rebel communications but actually upon further investigation it looks like it's possible that actually the combination of the united states offer to share in the syrian rebels could actually be behind the bringing down the internet and the reason is is because if the blood escalates in that country the last thing that the west wants is any reports coming out on the internet of actual rebel terrorist atrocities in that country. seems that we've seen quite a bit of research. on our website we have more on what is happening in syria including how france it could be about to start funding militant groups some of which are associated with al-qaeda. in kuwait a pro-government candidates have won the lion's share of seats in parliament after

saturday's election but the islamist led opposition which boycotted the vote claim the turnout was as low as twenty six percent dismissing the lawmaking body as illegitimate the opposition has vowed to continue their protests until the u.s. backed monarchy dissolved the parliament artie's was the captain off reports from the gulf state. voting in kuwait highly controversial elections may be over but the battle over the country's political future has only just begun lots of new faces in the newly elected parliament which is deemed to be far more government friendly than the previous assembly but that is because the opposition didn't want any candidates and oh boy cause of the vote the protest was deemed to be a success with official estimates placing voter turnout of roughly thirty nine percent in stark contrast to the sixty percent voter turnout that we've seen in the last three elections in this country the opposition claims the turnout was in fact much lower and its allies the new body is illegitimate in fact they told the new

assembly on constitutional and according to the popular committee for boycotting the election vote the new body doesn't represent the majority of the kuwaiti people and has lost a popular and political legitimacy the question is of course whether the opposition is now going to take its battle to the streets and whether the monarchy will respond with a heavy hand now what happens here in kuwait has implications far beyond the country's borders as an opec member any sort of on a rest is bound to have an effect on world oil prices the country also serves as a hub for the pentagon's ground forces with thousands of american combat troops stationed here as a military council wait to hear from the gulf monarchies as a whole have been struggling to stave off the effects of the arab spring with varying degrees of success kuwait is largely seen as the most tolerant of all the trees but the worry is that the trend could be reversed over the past few months the country has seen increasingly violent escalating protests between the opposition and security forces with the latter using tear gas stun grenades and

rubber bullets to disperse crowds political parties are banned as are political gatherings of more than twenty people and activists are claiming of a clampdown against dissent here in this country authorities that did allow thousands of the opposition demonstrators to gather in a largely peaceful rally on. friday of course the coming weeks are bound to test the limits of the government's tolerance as well as the self control of the opposition what happens here in kuwait could very well write the next chapter of the arab spring this the caffein of r.t. the weight of lawmakers in athens breathed a sigh of relief as the german parliament frees up forty four billion euros for greece the bailout will allow the debt ridden country to avoid default the finance minister valid his this would be the last time taxpayers will be asked to pay for foreign debt chancellor angela merkel maintain of a loan is in the country's best interest this has frustration amongst germans is growing over the seemingly endless outflow of cash investment advisor patrick young

says the concerns are spread much further than germany's board. i think there are a considerable number of people who would like to cut greece loose at this juncture a because it's probably the most humane thing to do but second of all because ultimately the greek government has simply field to do anything that it has really been supposed to do in terms of privatization and so on many times it's not good legislation but field to follow through the taxation system in greece is broken all of these sorts of horrible things lead us to the fact that greece is governed in a third world fashion at the moment and not to the first world fashion and that ultimately is causing a huge amount of frustration with a great many e.u. finance ministers some of them because they've got lots of money so just say germany and poland and so on some of them because they've actually taken their medicine the poor irish twenty five thousand people on the streets of dublin at the weekend complaining about the us narrative medicine they. know they're hearing that

the greeks are going to get all manner of concessions in order to be allowed to get through the next hurdle and get there next be a light that's not fair it's very unreasonable of a lot of people and that's leading a huge number of politicians to be increasingly fed up with the whole situation. well as hatred of the tabloids goes further than simply phone hacking britain is revising its attitude towards press freedom lord leveson report published on thursday and calls for tougher regulations in the u.k. barclays polly boy go reports on the inquiry that exposed to the see the relationship between the paper's police and politicians revelations that the british press and gauged in phone hacking sparked a wave of public revulsion and kicked off one of the biggest media scandals the u.k. has seen yes at times it threatening to engulf not just fleet street. but downing street as well as the allegations went all the way to the heart of the british government to douse the flames number ten ordered the creation of the

leveson inquiry in order to investigate the claims and now two years in the making after a chorus line of celebrity witnesses and millions in taxpayers' money the leveson report damning about the press and heavily critical of both the police and the government thought it says was their cozy relationship with the media cameron has been shown with jeremy hunt to have been actually batting for the murdoch empire was part of all of this so you know i think that you know there needs to be a bit more of a focus on the five years of the police. to do anything about these criminal acts lord leveson his recommendation is for higher standards of self-regulation by the press in forced by legislation and that's what critics fear could stifle the already declining newspaper industry and deal a huge blow to the freedom of the press in the u.k. is there any way in which you can be a little bit censored or

a little bit monitored and most people say no with britain now in the midst of a post leveson hangover is the country's two top politicians who are likely to be the most embarrassed david cameron might be suffering from some uncomfortable flashbacks back in october. why the prime minister promised to support the leveson recommendations as long as they went bonkers and cut to last week i have some serious concerns and misgivings on this recommendation they break down into issues of principle practicality and but david cameron's change of heart regarding the inquiries findings would be causing him half the headache that nick clegg might be nursing at the moment the liberal democrat deputy prime minister used to talk about liberal democracy a labor previous cessna's will be remembered as the government who took your freedoms away we want to be remembered as the ones who gave them but not anymore

here he is off to leveson published their report i have always said that i would support lord justice leveson reforms providing they are proportionate and workable and i will come on to why i believe that is the case as far as the report's corporate core proposal is concerned namely a tougher system of so for a glacial supported by new independent checks recognised in law recent polls suggest that over two thirds of britons have little or no faith in the newspaper industry anymore and with revelations about the strong links between the police the politicians and the media it's not only trust in fleet street that when doing things going to be the word you know obviously we've been very worried about his pressure for some time i think it's always going on but we should keep an eye on it and be aware of it. with opinions raging for and against new legislation it's turning into a no win situation for those in power by questioning the results of the inquiry

david cameron looked to his critics like he abandoned the victims of media intrusion for some good press which is what got the government in trouble in the first place polly boy k r t london the military. and some other stories making headlines across the globe this hour. a radical islamist sect is being blamed for a series of deadly attacks on churches and buildings in northeastern nigeria there are conflicting reports about the amount of casualties but at least ten people are thought to have died so far gunmen in cars and on motorbikes rampage through two villages in borno state targeting christian worshipers and government buildings in what are understood to be attacks by the boko haram group. disabled people in spain has staged a mass protest against government cuts in health care due to austerity measures more than ten thousand people turned out for the demonstration in chairs or with guide dogs in spanish government business struggling to deal with the country's

debt crisis which has left one in four people one employed. c.c.t.v. footage shows the moment a tunnel collapsed in japan leaving at least nine dead authorities are unclear as to how many people are still trapped there rescue efforts have been hampered by thick smoke after some of the vehicles caught fire police have already launched an investigation into the incident. prime minister. the presidential election. he got twice as many votes as the incumbent turk the ballot was held only two days after the protests in the capital erupted into clashes that left fifteen people injured the country's at deepening economic crisis is likely to top of the new president's agenda when he takes power. coming up r.t. takes a breathless journey through some truly deadly terrain u.s. military bombing range with a group of mad max like survivalists in a few minutes find out why they choose to call such

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